It’s as important to us as the electricity supply in our workshop.” He says as Crown need to cut a lot of shaped units, it helps it gain maximum yield from its material, which is usually 18mm MFC board, and MDF for doors. Jake continues: “Nesting is integral…we couldn’t run the business without it now. We stack the panels before we edge them, and need to be able to see which ones belong to each customer.” Jake comments: “As we create thousands of panels a month the label system is vital to keep track of everything and differentiate between the jobs. The labels show the job number as a bar code, the customer name, part name, colour, size, the cabinet it belongs to, and the delivery date.
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Crown Cabinets has set up its system so Cabinet Vision produces labels for each panel at the same time as the NC code goes to the Biesse. I designed it while the customer was here, and opened all the drawers to show her what all the drawer boxes would look like, then photo-rendered it for her,” says Jake. “I recently created a 1200mm high drawer unit with three single drawers along the bottom, two sets of two drawers, and one set of three drawers. Three Cabinet Vision functions are essential in helping Crown Cabinets take its products, and indeed the business, to the next level.įirstly: photo-rendering. “When a showroom designs a kitchen it’ll source its worktops, doors and appliances from individual suppliers.
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He describes the company’s principal operation for the trade as being the cabinet supplier of the full kitchen jigsaw. “We supply assembled cabinets to the trade, but we don’t fit – we only fit for end-user customers who buy through our retail outlet,” says Jake. I build my cabinet in 3D on the computer, and Screen-To-Machine creates the necessary NC code which cuts it on the Biesse.Īlthough Crown Cabinets has a retail branch in Burnley, the bulk of its customer base is trade, dealing with joiners and independent showrooms. “I think of it as the same as 3D printing. Now, using Cabinet Vision’s master and slave system, all I need to do is to build the cabinet in the 3D space, and the system automatically figures where everything goes. “We went from the point-to-point system where we had to visualise everything mentally, including where to place the cams and pins to ensure they matched.
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He says it is a major plus to see on-screen exactly what is being created. It saves us a lot of time every day now.” It was certainly worth the upfront investment in time to do that. “We have a saying: ‘if you can draw it, we can make it.’ And the process is easier because I put all the textures in there, too. We simply pick it from the catalogue and easily adapt it. “And as we add every cabinet we make to the library, when we’re working on a new project there’s nearly always a unit in there that is a close reference to the one we want. But when we were creating the Cabinet Vision library we came up with a new sink base and oven housings, which can be easily adapted every time for completely bespoke products. Jake says: “Previously, for instance, it wasn’t economical for us to have a different sink base from the standard base unit, because we had to write a new program for the point-to-point, as it wouldn’t save completed cabinets. It provided the ideal opportunity to relaunch its entire product range, with a number of changes which it could not have done without Cabinet Vision. “I created a cabinet in one size and called it made to measure…then used aliases to do four more sizes.” It began with Jake Gregory spending an entire weekend going through the company’s price list and building everything using Cabinet Vision’s powerful Alias feature. Not only has Cabinet Vision increased its output, but Jake says being able to store cabinets in its library means it can offer bespoke products to its customers quickly and cost effectively.Īnd that library is constantly growing. And we now have the capacity to accommodate for even more customers,” says Jake Gregory. We’re averaging eight full jobs a day, compared to four previously.
“A standard eight-to-10-cabinet kitchen used to take at least two hours…now it takes me about 15 minutes to optimise. The company manufactures cabinets for around 200 kitchens and bedrooms a month, and says Cabinet Vision, from Vero Software, has been key to doubling its output within six months of installing it, and enabling it to offer a fully bespoke service.īefore upgrading its CNC machinery with a Biesse flat top nesting machine, and investing in Cabinet Vision Solid Ultimate with Label-IT and Screen-To-Machine at the same time late last year, Crown produced its cabinets on a point-to-point machine.
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